[PRCo] Re: Sidings Added on Busy Pittsburgh Line.......

[tsquare at toad.net]

Not exactly correct, Fred -- on Labor Day weekends during 1948 and 1949
Charleroi cars (3800's and not trippers) were seen outbound on 38-MT.LEBANON
during the afternoon hours.  The 52' cars could just barely make the turn
from Washington Road to Clearview Loop because of a line pole on the curb,
a high ramping curb at that, all compounded by a change in grade and
superelavation of the curve.

Tom.

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Sidings Added on Busy Pittsburgh Line.......



The only instance I ever heard of such a diversion was the routing
diversion during County Fair, during which outbound morning and probably
early afternoon cars used the interurban, while cars returning to
Pittsburgh in the evening used the interurban.  Opposing movements went
through Mount Lebanon.  The tracks behind the Castle Shannon loop were
used to lay up cars during the day during the Allegheny County Fair.

I imagine that the regular interurban cars continued to run both ways on
the interurban in order to keep their schedule.

ROGER Jenkins wrote:
>
> I thought that PRCo rerouted cars during the rush hours thru  Mt Lebanon
> , sending some outbound cars deadhead that way in the AM rush to prevent
> inbound cars from bunching up at turnouts on the Overbrook section
> waiting for more cars than actually were needed on the interurban. The
> reverse was thought by me to be in effect in the evening rush hour where
> inbound cars were diverted via Mt Lebanon. This was related to me when I
> rode the line in   57-58 by a motorman on the car I was on. Is this fact
> or fiction ?? Sounds plausible and a way around the Overbrook bottleneck
> !